Tips & advice

If your system administrator looks a little frazzled this week, be nice to him or her and don't grumble too much about the photocopier being jammed. It may be that they have more serious issues on their mind.

Nearly two-thirds of employees - 63% - use personal email to transfer work files, potentially leaving workplaces exposed to hacks against their accounts - and more than half of employees regularly transfer files by insecure channels.

A Microsoft survey of 10,000 consumers found that the worldwide annual cost of identity theft and phishing could be as high as $5 billion - and the cost of repairing damage to people’s reputation online could be even higher.

Less than half of parents use parental controls on internet-enabled devices bought for their children - leaving millions of youngsters potentially exposed to online threats, according to new research.

A little-known banking trojan, developed in Russia, has managed to infect thousands of victims' computers without the knowledge of their owners. Graham Cluley takes a closer look.

Over the past two years, many online services have started to offer ‘two-factor authentication’ - an extra security measure which often requires a code from an app, or an SMS message, as well as a password. Our guide explains how, why and when to use '2FA'.

Fraudulent emails offering refunds of overpaid tax have surged by nearly 50% in the past year, according to a report by Accountancy Age. Customers reported 23,347 phishing emails to the British tax authorities in the three months before the deadline.

A small American law firm has admitted that every document on a server at the North Carolina company has fallen prey to the Cryptolocker ransomware, according to a report by local station WSO CTV.

A fake version of Facebook’s 10th anniversary celebration video page, ‘A Look Back’ is spreading via the social network, with users directed instead to another website, where they are prompted to download files.